Originally Posted by katkat05
Help!
First let me tell you I've had dogs all of my life. Beagles, poodles, Doberman, Dachshund, a couple shepherds, and coon hounds, so I am no stranger to dogs. My oldest daughter has an American Bulldog and a pit Terrier that is sweet as pie. Now onto my question.
I am babysitting my sons pitbull. It is 20 weeks old. It is beautiful and very friendly. It played well with my doberman (2 years old and gets along with all dogs that are nice to her) until my doberman had the raw hide, then it attacked her. Needless to say my dobie put her in her place because of the age and size difference. My dobe could have hurt bad but didn't, just made her yelp to be good. This happened twice. Then today when they was eating the pit attacked my dog again, and once again my dobe knocked her down. I got the dogs calmed down and feeding separately so I could check out what was going on. I kept my hand near the pit to see how she'd react. I took the food away from her and pushed her face away from the food several times to see if she'd get aggressive with me. She did not, but when I put my dobe back over there to see what would happen and right away the pit froze, I knew she'd do something, then she started to growl and I jerked her back and hollered NO.
Right after that I took her out for a walk and stopped by a neighbors house and the dog started growling at the woman. Her hackles was raised and she wouldn't calm down no matter how I corrected her, then after a few mintues she started wanting to lick the lady....bi polar maybe? .......Seriously though, this is a 4 & 1/2 month old pup! I am starting to be worried about this dog as an adult around my grandchildren.
thoughts, ideas?
thanks, Kat